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Garcinia wightii
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Family:
CLUSIACEAE/GUTTIFERAE
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Citation: Garcinia wightii Anders. in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 205. 1874; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 74(53). 1915; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 80. 1984; N.P. Singh in B.D. Sharma & Sanjappa, Fl. India 3: 129. 1993; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 53. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 26. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 22. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 87. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 72. 2005; W. Arisdason & P. Daniel in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 344. 2005.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Attukaruka, Kolivala, Pulimaranga
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
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Description:
Trees, to 10 m high, bark 5-6 mm thick, rough, brown, pustular; exudation orange yellow; branchlets 4 angled, glabrous. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate, estipulate; petiole 6-8 mm, slender, glabrous, grooved above; lamina 7.5-14 x 1.2-3 cm, linear, linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong, base acute, decurrent into the petiole, apex acuminate, glabrous, shining, coriaceous; lateral nerves 8-20 pairs, pinnate, slender, ascending, prominent, looped near the margin forming intramarginal nerve, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers polygamodioecious, yellow; male flowers: axillary, solitary or often 2-3, sessile; sepals 4, equal, orbicular, concave, thinly coriaceous; petals 4, 4.5-5 x 3.5 mm, yellow, obovate, distinctly concave; stamens 18-20, often united in a column enclosing the tetragonal stylodium, filaments free above, anthers peltate; pistillode tetragonal; female flowers: axillary, solitary, sessile; sepals and petals as in male flowers; ovary superior, almost globular, usually 4-locular, stigmas sessile, large. Fruit a berry, 11-13 x 9-11 mm, subglobose, smooth, pale green with persistent stigma and sepals; seeds 4, 9.5 x 4.5 mm.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
November-March
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District(s):
Thiruvananthapuram, Palakkad, Kollam, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Thrissur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Along stream banks in evergreen and semi-evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Southern Western Ghats
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Yellow
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
Southern Western Ghats
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IUCN status:
Vulnerable (VU)
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Altitude:
700-1200
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Localities:
Athirapally, Attathodu, Thenkudippara, Pampa thriveny, Athirumala
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